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ing of licenses to dairies in other countries. In Scotland an 
act was passed called “ The dairies, cowsheds and milkshops 
order of 1885,” in which the Police Committee as local sani¬ 
tary authority are empowered to make regulations inter alia, 
for prescribing and regulating the lighting, ventilation, cleans¬ 
ing, drainage and water supply of dairies and cowsheds in 
the occupation of persons following the trade of cow-keepers 
or dairymen, and the order declares that no cowshed shall 
be occupied, if new, until provision is made “ to the reasonable 
satisfaction of the local authority, for the lighting and the ven¬ 
tilation, including air-space, etc. And no cowshed whatever 
shall continue to be occupied if, and as long as, the lighting 
and ventilation, including air-space, are not such as are nec¬ 
essary and proper for the health and good condition of cattle 
therein and in a report to the Glasgow Board of Health, 
Dr. Russell, the medical officer of health, recommends: 
1st. “ That the registration, regulation, and control of 
byers should be placed in control of the sanitary authority. 
2d. “ That in all existing bvers the cubic space should be 
raised to six hundred cubic feet, that in all new byers it 
should be eight hundred cubic feet, and that the regulations 
generally as to lighting, ventilation, drainage, cleansing, and 
water supply should be carefully revised so as to give full 
effect to the mind of the sanitary authority, and thereby en¬ 
able them to discharge themselves of the responsibility im¬ 
posed upon them by the legislature.” ' (McF. vol. p. 96.) 
Denmark and Italy are, I believe, the only countries in the 
Continent of Europe that pay any special attention to the 
sanitary condition of the dairies. Great Britain and other 
countries are fast beginning to realize the importance of the 
subject, and it would be well if some such regulation as the 
above, regulating the granting of licenses to dairies were in 
force here. 
Again, in the matter of meat supply, abattoirs should be 
established, and all private abattoirs should be abolished or 
licensed, and made subject to inspection at all times. France 
and Germany take the lead in this respect. In Berlin all 
meat is inspected and stamped with a government stamp be- 
